Posts tagged with “fbo”

After making some tests with Java OpenGL (JOGL) in Eclipse, I decided I should try OpenFrameworks again to delve deeper into OpenGL. The main problem with JOGL is that it’s a “layer” on top of the original OpenGL API; some things are different and often more complex in JOGL (for example the need to pass ByteBuffers instead of arrays).

This audio visualization is a simple exercise with FBOs, VBOs and shaders. An audio-reactive particle system (512 quads) is rendered to a FBO and applied as texture to a cube. This cube is then rendered to a second FBO, which is applied as texture to a second cube. There is a slight blur effect made with GLSL shaders. The stripes result from the way the cube was UV-mapped, an unexpected effect that turned out interesting.

At a 640×480 pixels resolution, framerate varies from 30 to 60 FPS in my computer, equipped with a GeForce 6200 (I need to upgrade my PC).